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On the fifth day of the siege of the Western Fortress City, it was a mess.

There are three circles of city walls, the outer city has long been breached, and even the middle city wall has collapsed into a big hole.

In the darkness of the night, shortly before dawn, a pile of people was standing on the rubble of the collapse of the middle wall. The man in the center of the foreground is dressed in ornate full-body armor, holding a helmet with long feathers in his hand, and then the glimmer of a torch looks down at the ruins in front of him. Between the middle and outer walls is the commercial district, and the smell of corpses wafts through the nose, and the wooden beams of some of the burned building ruins still smoke and never seem to be completely extinguished. There was no place or time to evacuate all the civilians into the middle city walls, and now there was no manpower or energy to bury the bodies, so they were thrown in place. At least they died in their homeland.

The man who inspected the tragedy was officially the lord of the place, the Lord of the West. He was followed by his eldest son, Mones, and an elite team of guards.

The history of civilization in the New World is the history of war, and their belligerent temperament is no worse than that of the Fire Clan, but more of a civil war. As a result of the long period of killing on the battlefield in units of 10,000 years, their tactics and strategies have developed to the point of outrageousness, and they do everything they can, not only daring to use any tactic for the sake of victory, but also taking pride in winning by surprise. If there is any pattern to them, well...... The only thing left is that there will be no major offensive at night. It's not that they don't want to, it's that mana and faith don't allow big moves at night.

"Is this war......" Monnes couldn't help but sigh as he looked at the western fortress, which a few days ago was one of the few rich cities on the mainland, and now half of them had turned into charred black. This was the first time he had participated in a war of this scale, and it was a good thing to annihilate bandits and the like before.

In five days, more than 50,000 civilians had died, and the number of soldiers killed was nothing. Heavy losses.

Among the ruins below, there are many civilians with torches wandering through the ruins. They are either trying to dig their families out of the rubble or looking for food buried in the dirt.

Suddenly, a stone flew in.

The guards immediately stretched out their shields to block it, otherwise they would smash it in the face of the West Shangjue.

"Presumptuous!" The guard shouted angrily as he drew his sword, but was stopped by Lord Xishangjue.

The stone was thrown by a woman of nearly fifty years old, with wrinkles at the corners of her eyes and tears still dry. The resentment in her eyes seemed to be able to erupt into flames in the next second, which was chilling. Her hatred was very sharp, pointing directly at Xishanjue.

It was probably her husband and son, and immediately several people ran over and hugged her, apologizing to Xishangjue and trying to drag her away. The woman struggled and roared, scolded angrily, and almost went crazy: "You return my son!" The butcher of the West! Butcher! ”

Several guards tried to arrest her, but were again stopped by Sishanjue.

The Butcher of the West...... This is the price that Xishangjue has paid since the Sparrow incident protected the entire continent by radical means, "butcher"? Hehe...... He could only smile bitterly now. If he hadn't taken the opportunity to kill all the sparrows in several villages, as well as people and birds, it would definitely spread everywhere until the entire continent was destroyed. If you kill it, you will be infamous, and if you don't kill it, you will be infamy, really.

Not long after the Sparrow Incident, there was another invasion of the Northern New World.

The ghost knows why a large number of civilians suddenly migrated from the city of Yuanhuang, tens of thousands of people! With so many civilians coming at once near the war, it was really difficult for him to settle. It is said that this incident was caused by Nikoyid, and at the same time he cleaned him up while rectifying the source phoenix. Xishanjue has always had a political disagreement with Nicoyid, but he didn't expect the latter to immediately play dirty tricks as soon as he was promoted.

Reluctantly evacuated the civilians of the lower city into the outer city walls, the enemy army attacked in a big way. Before all the civilians could be further evacuated to the middle wall, the outer wall fell.

And then there was the Holocaust.

At that time, in order not to cause chaos in the upper city, Xishangjue strictly controlled the gate of the middle city wall, which caused the civilians to evacuate very slowly. The civilians who were carrying their children and dragging all their belongings were crying and shouting in front of the city gates, "Please open the gates and let us in!" At the same time, it was slaughtered by the enemy. The gates of the city must not be opened before, otherwise there will be a riot in the upper part of the city due to the sudden influx of refugees; The gates could not be opened at that time, because the enemy had already arrived, and there was a risk that the enemy would rush in with them. The city gates could not be opened even later, and it was inevitable that agitated civilians dragged the bodies of their relatives into the upper city, causing a plague epidemic.

Xi Shangjue thought that there was nothing wrong with this treatment, and the murderer was not him...... However, in terms of results, the infamy of the "Butcher of the West" has been further confirmed.

The small hill of rubble of the city wall standing at his feet was the last line of defense for hundreds of thousands of lives. Although this is the middle city wall, behind this is the upper city where all the civilians gather, and behind the inner city wall there is only its own castle. Even if you end up defending the castle and losing all the civilians, can it be considered a victory? Impossible.

Xi Shangjue turned around and asked, "Has the magic shield of the city wall been repaired?" ”

"Yes, sir! Just fixed! The mage-like guard looked at the white of the fish belly on the horizon, and couldn't help sighing, "It's really a long shot, it's almost too late." "This is the fifth day of the war, and the enemy is about to attack, and everyone knows very well about it.

However, the magic shield could not be used only in the place where the West Shangjue stood, because after all, the city wall had been destroyed and there was no firmware carrier to rely on. It is the gap in this wall that will be the key to today's war. If you hold the gap, you will be able to hold on for another day, and if you can't hold it, hundreds of thousands of people will die.

Xi Shangjue can't afford to lose.

This is the western fortress city and the western gate of the royal city. If it is lost, it will become a springboard for the enemy and immediately threaten the royal city, with only a vast moat and a bridge in between. This is why the limited forces of the entire continent have been concentrated here, and the northwestern commercial city of Yuanhuang has been abandoned. The fall of the latter did not directly threaten the royal city, but it was necessary to continue to capture the fortress city. With the habits of the Fire Clan, I am afraid that they will feel that it is not worth it and withdraw from the army. But the aura of the Northern New World is completely different

"Fanatic ......"

Xi Shangjue couldn't help blurting out when he thought of this. He killed more than a dozen enemies, and in the eyes of the other party, he saw only "madness" and "faith", and there was an indescribable horror. It is not difficult to see that the army of the Northern New World will not give up until it achieves its goal, which is completely different from the army of the Fire Clan.